“I think desire is the wrong word and love too plain, devotion too sacred.
My whole life, I think, I will use for describing you.
What do I know outside of words, which despite their history and combinations, are too few and short for this life.
I don’t know if I want heaven, but I know I want
to be where you go—”
— Emily Jungmin Yoon, from “Evolution,” Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024)









